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A crab fisher recounts the experience of sailing the stormy waters of the Bering Sea in a dilapidated and damaged factory ship. The physical and psychological ordeal he and his shipmates underwent in trying to save the ship are described.

Author: Warner, Irving
Publisher: Alaska Publishing Properties Inc.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 1997
Environmental aspects, Fishing, Fishing (Recreation), Marine accidents, Bering Sea

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An orca reunion: a trawler captain and a pod of killer whales share their summers in the fish-rich waters of the Bering Sea

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A trawler captain descries his ongoing friendship with a pod of killer whales. Each year, the pod would seem as it were waiting for his arrival, and he watched with sorrow as the leader of the pod began to age visibly.

Author: Decker, Mark S.
Publisher: Alaska Publishing Properties Inc.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 2000
Alaska, Behavior, Human-animal relationships, Killer whale, Killer whales

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An Alaska angler speaks out

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The story of a failed fishing expedition in search of the "Arctic" trout (now known as the Arctic Char) in Alaska around 1934 is presented. Only grayling was caught.

Author: Dufresne, Frank
Publisher: Alaska Publishing Properties Inc.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 2000
Recreation

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Subjects list: Personal narratives, Fishers (Persons), Alaska
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